Chicagoan turned New Yorker, Justine enjoys writing about the city as much as she loves living there! Find her people watching in the park or trying new restaurants—but she'll still take her deep dish!
Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum has been recreating the apartments and retelling the stories behind the immigrant families who once resided nearby or within its walls. And for the first time ever, the museum wil...
You may think the optimal time to catch the 50,000 lights twinkling on the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is at night, but mix that in with the overflowing crowds and traffic spilling out onto Fifth Avenue and you...
The cold weather got you down? How about taking yourself on a pick-me up trip to Belize City on a direct flight for less than $200! Sounds to good to be true? Well, let’s just count it as a holiday miracle....
There’s simply no better place than NYC to get in the spirit of the season and as 2023 comes to a close, New York City is bustling with activities. From bar transformations, dazzling light displays, and all the ic...
Watch out geese! Two new team members have joined the Island’s working dog team. Atlas, a blue merle border collie (2yr. old), and Reed, border collie puppy (5mo. old), will be responsible for keeping the geese po...
With nearly nine million people, New York City reigns as the country’s largest city by population. However, since the pandemic, NYC’s population has observed a significant decline. According to data from Sta...
Soon after AirTrain JFK has begun accepting OMNY payments, comes the first phase in updating Newark’s monorail system, better known as the AirTrain Replacement Program. According to the program’s website, ...
After two consecutive years holding the title as the best city to celebrate New Year’s Eve, NYC has shockingly dropped in the ranking. Now coming in at third place, the 2023 study from…...
The strongest solar flare in the last six years was emitted on Thursday, December 14th, peaking around 12:02 p.m. EST. To clarify, according to NASA, a solar flare is a powerful burst of energy released from the sun tha...
It’s another weekend in NYC, which means more rain is on its way. The forecasted storm is set to hit the Northeast after traveling from the Gulf of Mexico and through Florida. The storm’s route is currently...